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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SEPTEMBER 14: Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Shervin Pishevar speaks... [+] onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 at Pier 48 on September 14, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Just when things were set to calm down a bit at Uber, with new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi taking the reins today, Shervin Pishevar, the idiosyncratic investor seeking to intervene in a lawsuit between two of its largest shareholders, stirred them up again. For most observers, this is a hard nosed battle over control of a $69 billion startup. But to Pishevar, it seems, it's nothing short of a battle between right and wrong, or as he says, "one of the grandest business and moral battles of our generation."

To recap: Uber investors Benchmark, the venture capital firm, and Travis Kalanick, the former CEO and co-founder, are locked in a boardroom brawl and court battle over control of the company. Pishevar, an early Uber investor, and ally of Kalanick inserted himself in that battle last week when he filed to intervene in the case and represent an "Uber Shareholder Alliance."

On Wednesday, Pishevar's representatives sent Forbes a statement he wrote the night before filing. It's unclear why it is being released a week after the fact, but the two sides of the case are in court on Wednesday in Delaware where a judge is deciding on whether or not the case should be sent to arbitration. A representative later said the message was an email Pishevar sent to his lawyers the night before they filed to inspire them.

Here's the statement in full, which came in an email titled "Shervin Pishevar's Views on Benchmark":

Let us take this pause in this moment, when we find ourselves swimming in the crucible of one of the grandest business and moral battles of our generation, and find strength in each stroke of our proverbial digital pens, that we wrote with the indelible, eternal and permanent ink of righteousness. We write with the souls of thousands of lives saved, the lives of millions of jobs created liberating multitudes of drivers from the shackles of servitude to iniquitous taxi cartels of corrupt cabals that choked cities with their pollution of air and morals. We write with the spirit of Bonnie Kalanick, who raised her son with deep unconditional love and unfading faith in his ability to do good for the world. Whose tragic and untimely death was used against her son at his most vulnerable, unspeakable time of pain. They chose to strike at a moment of a devoted son's retreat and leave of absence to mourn the absence of the inviolable love of his mother. In doing so, they joined the very corruption her son had devoted such fervent passion to fight. In her memory, we devote our actions to a just cause; to defend what is right and to protect the interest of not only shareholders but most importantly the far more important stakeholders of employees, drivers and customers whose lives have been forever altered by the abiding faith and fervent hard work of Travis Kalanick and the Uber team. Their allegiance was met by this unholy alliance of perfidious greed devolving rapidly into the audacity of vituperative unparalleled predatory rapacity.

Let us strike tomorrow with the full and fulsome courage of our convictions. Let our just cause give pause to those who would ever dream of ever emulating the shameful shenanigans of these sanctimonious hypocrites who fling filings and letters de haut en bas; when it is we who have the higher moral ground and our letters and filing will hail down upon their platforms, exposing them as bitterly barren barons of moral turpitude. And as the summer sets, we let us be steward of truth who in unison proclaim: fiat justitia ruat caelum.

I’m a San Francisco-based staff writer for Forbes with a focus on Uber, the sharing economy, and startups. I previously worked for Business Insider, Gigaom, and Wired. I…

I’m a San Francisco-based staff writer for Forbes with a focus on Uber, the sharing economy, and startups. I previously worked for Business Insider, Gigaom, and Wired. I also spent a year as newspaper designer for Gannet. I’m a native of Atlanta, Georgia and a proud graduate from Indiana University’s journalism school. Email me story tips at bcarson [at] forbes.com or follow me on Twitter @bizcarson.